in her bedroom the mighty bedroom the fangirl blogs tonight
I’ve seen some people suggesting that Bill having a shower with Sookie is an example of their love for one another. If that is the case, I’m kind of worried as it is a carbon copy of the shower scene from Psycho. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a number of gifs from the version made in 1998. The pictures to the right are from Psycho as it might be hard to tell the difference. If this is love, what does hate look like?
Oh, it’s exactly the parallel that the show was going for. It’s so deliberate that, yes, it’s hard to imagine someone would take this scene as romantic. It wasn’t meant to be. It was meant to present as horrifying, sad, and ominous. This was definitely not a love scene, and in the episode commentary the writer says something to the effect that “there isn’t enough water to wash away” all the badness of it.
“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of magic.”
